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1、Unit 1 Cultural HeritagePeriod 2 Reading and ThinkingFrom Problems to Solutions,Look at the two photos and the title, guess what the text is mainly about. Title: From problems to solutions,Prediction,Keys: The text is about some problems about some cultural relics and the solutions to tackle the pro
2、blems.,While reading,Fast Reading,Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph. Paragraph 1: challenge Paragraph 2: proposal led to protests Paragraph 3: committee established Paragraph 4: brought together Paragraph 5: success Paragraph 6: spirit,Read again and answer the following qu
3、estions: 1.Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s? To benefit the area by controlfloods,producing electricity,andsupplying watertomorefarmersinthearea. 2.Why did the building of the dam lead to protests? It will damage the cultural relics. 3.How did the government save
4、the cultural relics? By moving them to a safe place. 4.Which one can describe the project? Successful. B. Negative. C. Useless. D. Doubtful. 5.What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project? The cooperation can solve difficult problems.,Fast Reading,Careful Reading,Read more carefully and answer the
5、 following questions. 1. What do “problems” refer to and what do “solutions” refer to? Problems: locals protests against building a new dam across the Nile. Solutions: limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics.,Careful Reading,2. Find out the numbers in paragraph
6、 four and explain why the author used exact numbers instead of expressions like many. Numbers: 1961; 20; 22; fifty; 80 Purpose: to make the information more concrete, and richer, and more importantly, to make it more persuasive and concise.,Careful Reading,3. What can you infer from “Over the next 2
7、0 years, thousands of engineers and workers rescued 22 temples and countless cultural relics”? The project is so hard that it takes 20 years to finish it. 4. What can you infer from “Fifty countries donated nearly 80 million to the project”? The project cost a lot of money. Mary countries participat
8、ed in the rescue and it is their team work that has saved the temples.,Careful Reading,5. Before the building of the dam, what problems did the Nile river bring to the Egyptians? Floods and droughts; not enough electricity. 6. What words can you think of to describe the working process of the projec
9、t? Hard, tough, complicated, amazing, excellent.,protection,Consolidation,Divide the passage into three parts and then fill in the blanks.,saving,solutions,damage,turned to,proposal,taken down,success,provide,nation,Post reading,I think although the construction is important, the government should a
10、lso make an effort to protect the cultural relics. When they disappear, they wont come back and will lose their value. The government should keep the right balance between the construction and the protection of them.,1. How to deal with the construction and the protection of cultural relics?,Critica
11、l thinking and discussion,2. As students, what should we do to protect our cultural relics?,We should know more about cultural relics in our country and do something we can to protect the cultural relics. For example, we can spread the knowledge of cultural relics and promote the awareness of the pr
12、otection of them.,A big challengethe balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites.,The outline of the passage,Summary,Introduce the topic:,List the evidence:,Conclusion,In the 1950s the government wanted to build a new dam. In 1959, the government asked the UN for help . In 1960, the project started/began. In 1961 the first temple was moved . Over the next twenty years, the temples and cultural relics were being rescued. In 1980, the project was completed/ended.,The spirit of the Aswan Dam project is still alive today.,Homework,Finish the paper handed out today,Thank You,